I found the section in WHM (Server Configuration > Update Preferences), I assume the "Operating System Package Updates" mean the OS plus other applications such as Apache, PHP etc..?

I found out the way to install via yum and bypass the excludes:

Code:

yum install httpd-tools --disableexcludes=all

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Don't install this package. This is your os provided package . But cpanel have its own apache and php . If you are using easyapache 3 please try to use the script /scripts/easyapache to compile apache and php or else you can use the whmcs interface too. Things are different in cpanel compared to plesk.

So Apache and PHP don't get installed from the OS repository but from a cPanel repository?

I wanted to download and use the Apache Benchmark tool which is included in the package "httpd-tools". What would be the best way to install this compared to how I did it above? I don't see an option to add it in EasyApache.